Teysa Karlov Aristocrats deck help
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Posted on April 3, 2020, 4:07 p.m. by Killercleary
Hey all, so I’m quite newish to commander and was wanting to try something different and a bit more challenging to play over my current decks and need some help with pay off and enabler cards to make this deck shine as I have been told it’s quite a combo deck and requires a certain amount of pay offs and enablers to work well. Don’t wanna spend too much on in but willing to put a decent amount into it if needed. Any help is massively appreciated and the deck list what I have so far is below
Femme_Fatale says... #3
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April 3, 2020 5:45 p.m.
I can’t remember where I found this, but I wrote down that a good baseline for an aristocrats deck is 50% fodder, 20% payoff, and 20% Sac outlet. That last 10% can be used for removal and other things that don’t fall into one of those three categories - if removal is also fodder, even better! Teysa Karlov was my first aristocrats deck and using that ratio made it function much more consistently.
April 3, 2020 10:16 p.m.
multimedia says... #6
Hey, here's two Orzhov aristocrat combos to consider adding:
- Reveillark + Karmic Guide + sac outlet (Viscera Seer) + aristocrat (Blood Artist)
- Leonin Relic-Warder + Animate Dead + aristocrat (Zulaport Cutthroat)
Infinite die triggers of an aristocrat is the win condition of these combos. If you would like I can explain these combos since I've been playing them for years.
April 4, 2020 3:29 a.m.
Killercleary says... #7
I would love to hear how the combos work multimedia as this type of commander play style is totally new to me. I currently have the populate naya pre con from last year that I’ve upgraded, Arlela from this years upgraded and then I have recently done a mono green elf deck
April 4, 2020 2:46 p.m.
Zulaport Cutthroat and friends are usually the main win con. In the combos listed above, you Sac one to recur the other in an infinite loop. I’ve also found that Storm Herd and Army of the Damned work well. With Teysa Karlov out the drain effects now trigger for 2 so that’s 26 damage with the army and you can flashback next turn. The lifegain from the tokens has helped on occasion as well
CluelessMorgan says... #2
A good start would be having some free sacrifice outlets such as Carrion Feeder, Viscera Seer, Woe Strider, Spawning Pit, or ‘Yahenni, Undying Partisan’. Then you’ll want A) Creatures you can sacrifice, which, if they have death triggers can be a win-win, and B) Things that trigger when your stuff does die. So a couple good creatures for having stuff to sacrifice could be Sengir Autocrat or ‘Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder’ and some of the staples that react to creatures dying range from Zulaport Cutthroat, Vindictive Vampire, Falkenrath Noble, Pitiless Plunderer, Blood Artist, to Sifter of Skulls...The list goes on, like for card draw, you could also run Midnight Reaper or Grim Haruspex
April 3, 2020 5:39 p.m.